The Northern Line issue is an electronic failure.

What would happen if GPS - the Global Positioning System - stopped working?
For a start, we would all have to engage our brains and pay attention to the world around us when getting from A to B. Perhaps this would be no bad thing: we'd be less likely to drive into rivers or over cliffs through misplaced trust in our navigation devices.

The American taxpayer puts up the billion-odd dollars a year it takes to keep GPS going, and that's very kind of them. But is it wise for the rest of the world to rely on their continued largesse?

1 terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes.. However, in terms of information technology or computer science, 1 TB is 1024 gigabytes.

The Internet is Information Technology is it not?
I've always thought this:
8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes - 1 kb
1024 kb = 1Mb
1024 Mb = 1Gb
1024 Gb - 1 Tb

• kib (1024 = 2^3 bits)
  
• Mib (2^6 bits)
  
• Gib (2^9 bits)
  
• Tib (2^12 bits)
  

and:

• kiB (1024 = 2^3 bytes)
  
• MiB (2^6 bytes)
  
• GiB (2^9 bytes)
  
• TiB (2^12 bytes)
  

See "Wikipedia - Mebibyte" for more of the story.

1 terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes.. However, in terms of information technology or computer science, 1 TB is 1024 gigabytes.

Reporting hiccups?
Utopia on the way. :-)

All the usual Marketing lies and obfuscation...

All the usual Marketing lies and obfuscation...

A bug is a feature as described by the marketing department.

Security footage showed the man holding a cellphone to his ear just before the robbery, a detail that led police to attempt a surveillance technique that is growing in popularity among American law enforcement agencies.

When authorities had not identified the suspect a few weeks after the robbery, an officer got a warrant for Google's location data from all the cellphones that had been in the area of the Call Federal Credit Union bank during the heist.

The demand for Google data, known as a geofence warrant, is a way for law enforcement authorities to take advantage of the company's collection of massive amounts of information on its customers. The orders allow police to track just about anyone using an Android device or a company app — such as Google maps or Gmail — to a particular place over a particular time period.

Ain't technology grand. :-(
Just noticed the fall donation thread & seen my green star disappeared, oops.
Clicked donate & entered info - card failed. ???
Problem with new card?
Never mind, got a good memory for numbers. Entered old card details (expires 01/20) donation accepted, Confirmation no 496701.
New card received last week & unlike the previous one which started from 02/17 expires 01/20, it started from 11/19 & expires 01/23.
Before anyone mentions it, no I didn't get the details mixed up. :-)
Just off the phone to bank who stated that card should work as it's valid on their system.
Who to believe? The bank or my eyes? UCB definitely rejected new but accepted the old.
Will find out later when shopping.
Preparing for some embarrassment as old card destroyed. :-(

That was fast. :-)

Before being enabled for online use or for any 'touch/contactless' payments, some banks now require you to physically use a new card in an ATM or for some chip + pin purchase whereby you validate your new card by physically using your pin with it.

Hope you've not lost too much time with the card swap!

Frank Teller is the ambitious pastor of a Texas megachurch so successful that many of its members live in “intentional communities” owned by the church. The church uses customer service chatbots to manage basic community requests. But Teller doesn’t like it when a bot recommends “reflection and mindfulness” in response to his granddaughter’s request for prayer. He wants David and Mark to design a custom A.I. that incorporates conservative evangelical language and priorities: “We need A.I.s that share our values.”

But religiously motivated uses of A.I. and surveillance technology are inevitable—in fact, plenty already exist. One company provides facial recognition technology to churches so they can keep track of member attendance. Smartphones are a fixture in church services, many large churches have their own apps, and millions of people read the Bible on screens instead of in print. The Church of England recently developed an Alexa “skill” that reads prayers, answers questions like “Who is God?,” and helps users locate nearby churches.

What does it mean to pray with Alexa? Will it someday “answer” individual prayers by suggesting certain products and resources? And will voluntary religious communities be tempted to use surveillance technology to hold members accountable—with or without their consent—on attendance, donations, or personal issues like pornography use? Everyone wants “A.I.s that share our values,” as Teller tells Mark and David. The only question is whose values, and to what end.

The latest update hasn't deleted the data, but it has changed its location and rendered it impossible to find.

The latest update hasn't deleted the data, but it has changed its location and rendered it impossible to find.

Oh dear